With my responses:
Ahhhh, so you’re “epbush”. I’ve seen you comments on Alias Mother. You are a very funny lady (loved your comment when A.M. was considering sending her Buddha to be with the in-laws – it was brilliant).
Thanks, I love A.M. She’s funnier than me!
I just stumbled on your blog while lurking around other blogger’s blogroll since I can’t get around to writing my own post. Too much work. I love it.
Thanks again. I’ve been neglecting it while I write my book. My blog and my kids are going to call the authorities on me. Get it Author-ities!!!! HA ha. Neglect is so funny.
How did you start writing your book? Did you start with a plot or with a character? Have you ever written a book before? I admire your mania.
I started with a feeling that I would die a horrible death if I didn’t write, and had nothing worth writing about. I started with an idea to create a world that was mine to control. I have never written a book before, but I had been a professional writer for several years before my family came along.
I always dreamed I would write a book “someday”, so I started a blog to start writing on a regular basis. What I found was all these brilliant writers blogging who write so much better than I ever could. I put the dream aside. So now I’ll live vicariously. Keep writing.
I don’t know if what I am writing is any good, I just know I am writing. It could be dreck and painful to read, but hey, Clive Cussler* gets published, so hope springs eternal.
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*Note to Clive Cussler. I loved the movie Sahara. I went out and bought one of your books. Dude. Verbs make writing interesting. Vary them. And stop using the same common nouns 4 times in a paragraph. Your writing annoys me.
Good Golly, I hope I get published so people can slam my writing in their blogs…
Thank you for your answers — now I better get back to my blog and start checking verbs.
Keep posting on your progress.
Hey, look! Two of my favorite blog friends talking about me behind my back. Huh.
I’ve been feeling the book writing bug again myself, prompted in part by a blogger that I read who is now in the midst of publishing her fourth book. Four books, in the few short years that I’ve been reading her blog. Amazing. Now, I happen to think that she is a better writer than me. But, is that because she has more actual talent, or does she just work harder at it? That’s the question. And I’m starting to think it’s the latter. In which case…what the hell am I doing?